It may be a reference to the point that is said in the āyah ...

It may be a reference to the point that is said in the āyah : “ Rivalry in worldly increase distracts you, until you come to the graves.” [^7] Or else, Iblīs himself is a reality with an abstract ideal, and the reality of universal Iblīs , the head of all Iblīs es, is the universal fancy [ wahm al-kull ], as the universal abstract intellectual fact, the first man [Adam], is the universal intellect [' aql al-kull ] .

The individual worldly fancies are of the affairs [ shu'ūn ] and manifestations [ mazāhir ] of the universal Iblīs , as the individual intellects are of the affairs [ shu'ūn ] and manifestations [ mazāhir ] of the universal intellect [' aql-i kull ] . A detailed explanation of this subject is out of the capacity of this thesis. In a word, what becomes a hindrance and a thorn on the road of the divine sulūk to Allah is Satan or his manifestations, whose acts are also of Satan's.

And what, of the states of the invisible and visible worlds and of the happenings [ awārid ] that happen to the soul, and of its different states, becomes a veil on the face of the Beloved [ janān ] , whether of the mundane terrestrial worlds, such as poverty, and richness, soundness and illness, ability and disability, knowledge and ignorance, plagues and defects, etc., or of the invisible, abstract and ideal worlds, such as paradise and hell, and relevant knowledge, even the argumentative intellectual sciences which belong to tawhīd and glorifying Allah…, all of them are of Iblīs ' snares by which he diverts man from Allah and from having intimacy and privacy with Him.

Even diversion through moral [ ma'nawī ] states and standing [ wuqūf ] in spiritual stages, whose outside is to stand at the path of humanity, and whose inside is to stand at the path of Allah which is the spiritual bridge of the hell of separation and parting, and which ends in the paradise of meeting, the bridge which is exclusive to a small group of the people of knowledge and of heart are also of the big snares of the chief Iblīs , from which one must seek refuge in the Sacred Essence of Allah, the Exalted.

In short, whatever diverts you from Allah and secludes you from the Beautiful Beauty of the Beloved, the Glorified, is your Satan, be it in the form of an ins or a jinn .